Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!agate!ucbvax!UCSD.EDU!sdempsey From: sdempsey@UCSD.EDU (Steve Dempsey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: problems with NQS 'help' command Message-ID: <9101292041.AA29719@chem.chem.ucsd.edu> Date: 29 Jan 91 20:41:16 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 100 software: NQS 1.0 os version: 3.3.1 model: 4D/340VGX The NQS documentation frequently urges the reader to invoke the online help command in order to obtain useful info that is not documented anywhere else. When I invoke the NQS queue manager 'qmgr' and ask for help, I get the following garbage as output: ----------------- sdchemi3[5] qmgr Mgr: help o adding schedctl() and sysmp() Revision 1.1 89/11/17 16:18:24 bh iniitial revision * */ Mgr: ------------------ What gets printed is the end of the RCS revision history at the beginning of the file /usr/lib/nqs/qmgr.hlp. Attempts to get help on specific NQS qmgr commands result in seemingly random displays of unrelated portions of this file. Is it a problem with the help file or the qmgr program? Here is the front end of the help file I received: /*++ qmgr.hlp - Network queueing System * * $Source: /jake/att/usr/src/cmd/nqs/qmgr/RCS/qmgr.hlp,v $ * * DESCRIPTION: * * NQS Qmgr help file. * * Author: * ------- * Brent A. Kingsbury, Sterling Software Incorporated. * September 9, 1985. * * * STANDARDS VIOLATIONS: * None. * * REVISION HISTORY: ($Revision: 1.10 $ $Date: 90/06/26 08:57:10 $ $State: Exp $) * $Log: qmgr.hlp,v $ Revision 1.10 90/06/26 08:57:10 bh fixed minor grammatical error, and reference to 'help network' Revision 1.9 90/06/12 14:59:16 bh minor cleanup Revision 1.8 90/03/20 10:33:30 bh more tersification Revision 1.7 90/03/19 16:23:21 bh removed help on delete request Revision 1.6 90/03/19 15:05:09 bh folded all upper/lower cmd stuff to all lower case lots of little corrections and tersification Revision 1.5 90/02/27 17:17:03 bh fixed problem with seT_NICLIM Revision 1.4 90/02/20 17:35:34 bh changes for new limits in 3.3 Revision 1.3 89/12/20 08:54:57 bh added set globalrun Revision 1.2 89/12/15 13:25:39 bh additions related to adding schedctl() and sysmp() Revision 1.1 89/11/17 16:18:24 bh iniitial revision * */ #HELP The available commands are: abort add create delete disable enable exit help lock purge qsetenv set show shutdown start stop unlock To obtain more information about a command, type: help Each command can usually abbreviated. Long lines can be split into multiple lines by using a "\" at the end of a partial command line. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Dempsey voice: (619) 534-0208 Dept. of Chemistry Computer Facility, 0314 UUCP: ucsd!sdempsey University of Calif. at San Diego BITNET: sdempsey@ucsd 9500 Gilman Drive INTERNET: sdempsey@ucsd.edu La Jolla, CA 92093-0314 fax: (619) 534-0058